| Comparative Animal Biochemistry 1994 Edition Contributor(s): Urich, Klaus (Author), Urich, C. (Illustrator), King, P. J. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 3540574204 ISBN-13: 9783540574200 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: There exists an extreme variability in the biochemical properties of animal organisms. Each species, each individual, in fact each cell type of a multicellular animal has its own molecular characters. This advanced text- and reference book deals with the molecular structures of body substances and the chemical processes of metabolism for the first time throughout the whole animal kingdom from the protozoans to the higher vertebrates. The biochemical variation is explained as adaptation to particular environmental conditions or as the result of phylogenetic diversification. The fascinating insights into the fundamental mechanisms and the time course of evolution that have been gained by the analysis of molecular data are extensively described. More than 4600 actual references give the reader access to the original literature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Biochemistry - Science | Life Sciences - Biochemistry - Science | Life Sciences - Biology |
| Dewey: 591.192 |
| LCCN: 94007808 |
| Physical Information: 1.41" H x 7.88" W x 10.63" (4.13 lbs) 784 pages |
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| Publisher Description: tribute greatly to understanding the origins of The plan for this book goes back almost 20 years. Already, at that time, it was possible to recognize organisms. an extraordinary variation in metabolites and To provide the biochemist with a ready over- processes superimposed upon the basic biochem- view of the structural diversity of animals, the book includes a simplified version of animal sys- ical system of animals. Each species, each indi- tematics; for further information on the classifica- vidual, in fact each type of cell of the multicellu- lar organism possesses its own biochemical char- tion, structure and life of particular animal spe- acter, and this molecular variety, its biological sig- cies, the reader should consult the relevant text- nificance, and its evolutionary development books. It is assumed that the zoologist reader has throw up many interesting questions. The com- a basic knowledge of biochemistry; important general biochemical facts are in any case given for parative approach that has been so productive at many of the subjects covered. the higher levels of complexity of morphology and physiology can also be used to great effect at I had already completed several chapters of the molecular level. this book by the beginning of the 1970s. |